4) Child's pose. This is a safety position. When you need a break, come into child's pose and start to connect with your inner child.

Visualise a time in your childhood when you felt safe and happy.

Remember that you can choose to feel that way whenever you like – anxiety might have weaved its way into your adulthood, but ultimately, you are always in control of how you feel.

Consider anxiety as your adult invisible friend.

Just let it know that you're the one holding the reins.

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5) Lastly, breathe. Anxiety causes shallow breathing from the chest.

Instead try taking deep, conscious breaths right into your belly, feeling your sides and back expand with each inhale.

Connect with your breath rather than your thoughts. Go one step further – on an inhale say to yourself 'thank you anxiety' and on an exhale: 'for helping me grow'.

Because pain is growth, and us humans are all about the growth.

Despite how awful it can feel, perhaps we shouldn't be looking at anxiety as the enemy.

Maybe it's not something that needs to be conquered.

It could be about time we take the higher road, put down our defenses and shake its hand. By pushing things we don't want away, we really only draw them closer.

Practise yoga to offer new perspectives. Inhale, exhale.

Learn to embrace the shadows of your inner warrior, not just the light, and feel the shifts start to happen.

You got this.

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Holly Lois is a London-based fitness trainer, lifestyle blogger and holistic coach and healer in training. Follow her on Instagram @hollyloisinsideout and visit her website for class schedules and more information

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